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[Matt Diamond]

I didn't know about the new edition of Dear Esther. Thanks for the tip-- this might be the excuse I needed to try it. (Which I probably can because it won't need Metal.)

[elowel]

jeannot, on 15 April 2017 - 09:01 AM, said:

I'm not sure it uses Metal, because it can show the Steam fps counter, which I heard doesn't work on Metal games.

FPS counter works fine in F1 2016.

How do you use ioregistryexplorer?

[jeannot]

elowel, on 15 April 2017 - 05:35 PM, said:

FPS counter works fine in F1 2016.

How do you use ioregistryexplorer?

I open it and look for some "accelCommandQueue", which is related to Metal. Clicking on a command queue will show the app name in the "Value" column of the right-hand panel.
But it 10.12, it seems that basically every apps is associated to a command queue, since the whole UI runs on Metal.
If the app uses openGL, it should be associated to some "accelGLContext". This is the case for Dear Esther and gfxbench GL, but not gfxbench Metal.
With that said, if an app uses both openGL and Metal, it may be difficult to tell how much it uses Metal in 10.12 (simply for the basic UI or 3D rendering?).

[elowel]

Hmm, looks like you're right!
It runs really well. Usually I've found Unity games awful, but I guess Dear Esther is not very graphically intensive.

[UmarOMC1]

ikir, on 10 April 2017 - 11:58 PM, said:

10.12.4 finalized Metal
https://twitter.com/...026526172467201

Awesome! Almost makes me want to sign up for Twitter to follow.

[dr.zeissler]

MM-2012/HD4000 TR-2013 on 10.14 High-Details 1024x768

OGL: 28fps
MET: 23fps.

I think metal will show it's potential on "AS"